The Life-history of an Indian. 151 



of miles until he can strike him down with his club. 

 Other Kenaimas are supposed to work by charms and 

 produce every ailment from which the Indian suffers. 

 The first obje6l of the Peaiman was to try counter- 

 charms and drive the imaginary enemy from the neigh- 

 bourhood. This he was supposed to accomplish by 

 burning certain plants under the patient's hammock to 

 make a kind of vapour bath, rattling his shak-shak and 

 abusing the enemy in the way already described. 



Peter recovered and went on as usual. Among his 

 other occupations a favourite one was training his young 

 hunting dogs. They were poor creatures, hardly any- 

 thing but skin and bone, but very a6live and intelligent. 

 To teach a puppy Peter would carry it in his arms 

 when hunting, and let him smell the trail of different 

 animals as well as their bodies when caught. If the 

 animal was not quick enough it was fed on the entrails 

 of the game well mixed with peppers (capsicums), and if 

 it failed altogether it was put in a hole and covered with 

 branches and forced to rub its nose in a lot of bruised 

 peppers placed near its head. The burning effe6ls of 

 these were supposed to increase the senses of smell and 

 sight, even Peter himself sometimes applying them to 

 his eyes for the latter purpose. 



Powder and shot were obtained bv working for a few 

 days now and again at the timber grant. On one 

 occasion Pkter went with a party to town, but he felt 

 very uneasy the whole time. They brought down a 

 number of monkeys and parrots, which the Portuguese 

 hucksters tried to get from them for a mere nothing. The 

 leader however, who knew something of their wiles, 

 stuck out for his prices and took care not to have any 



